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Miss Sara Robinson, 120 West 24th St., X. Y. City. 



Miss Lucy J. Crosson, 215 West 44th St., N. Y. City. 



The annual reports of the treasurer, secretary, corresponding 

 secretary, editor, and the editor of Torreva were then read and 

 placed on file. The committees reported progress. No report 

 was rendered by the committee on admissions or the committee 

 on finance. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : 



President, Dr. H. H. Rusby ; vice-presidents. Prof. Edward S. 

 Burgess, Prof. L. M. Underwood ; recording secretary. Dr. C- 

 Stuart Gager ; corresponding secretary. Dr. John K. Small > 

 editor. Dr. John Hendley Barnhart ; treasurer. Dr. Carlton C- 

 Curtis ; associate editors : Dr. Alexander W. Evans, Dr. Tracy 

 E. Hazen, Dr. Marshall A. Howe, Dr. D. T. MacDougal, Dr. 

 W. A. Murrill, Dr. Herbert M. Richards, Anna Murray Vail. 



A request from Mrs. E. G. Britton for a grant of $100 from 

 the Herrman fund to be used in illustrating new species of mosses 

 from the Southern States and the West Indies was read and the 

 application approved by the Club. 



Miss Crosson and Miss Robinson were elected to membership, 

 and the resignations of Mr. T. H. Kearney, Jr., and Dr. Voelkel 

 were read and approved. The Club then adjourned until the 

 next stated meeting. 



C. Stuart G.\ger, 



Secretary. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Professor Hugo de Vries has accepted an invitation to deliver 

 an address in Philadelphia in April in connection with the cele- 

 bration of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Benjamin 

 Franklin by the American Philosophical Society. 



Mr. Homer D. House, who was a graduate student in botany 

 in Columbia University from 1902 to 1904, and has been of 

 late an assistant in the U. .S. National Herbarium, is now asso- 

 ciate professor of botany and bacteriology in the Clemson Agri- 

 cultural College of South Carolina. 



